When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.
Eli RothI felt people responded to two things. One, obviously, is the gore and the scenes like the eye gauging.
Eli RothI always say that no matter what the torture is, or the tool is, first of all it's nothing worse than what's been done already and that wasn't done by the church and the state for over a period of 250 years during the European witch trials.
Eli RothThere's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.
Eli Roth